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Author: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (2024)
In this talk, I rehearse a thinking that dances the relations between performance, philosophy, animals and equality according to the figure of the circle. To think with dance and dance with thought in relation to nonhuman animals and the question of equality – understood as an ontological, epistemological, aesthetic, political and ethical question. The paper suggests that intersectional, interspecies performance practice is one place where the reconciliation of both the oppressive and liberating dynamics of animalization is happening – including in the work of a company called, Criptonite. Founded in 2020 by Zurich-based artists Edwin Ramirez and Nina Mühlemann, Criptonite is a crip-queer performance project that centres access and disability including in a work called "Slow Animals" (2020) which thinks the intersections of animal and disability justice with dance.
Free to download at: https://www.academia.edu/111134817/In_Circles_Performance_Philosophy_Animals_Equality